Right: The new West Kowloon Expressway provides easy access not only to the new airport at Chek Lap Kok, but also to the container terminals at Kwai Chung. Below: A container ship brimming with cargo makes its way slowly into
Hong Kong's busy shipping lanes. In 1997, Hong Kong handled about 14.6 million twenty-foot equivalent
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units of containers making it the world's busiest container port for the sixth successive year. Port-related industrial and commercial enterprises are estimated to contribute about 20 per cent of Hong Kong's gross domestic product and the latest prediction is that port cargo will more than double over the next two decades.
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